WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11192019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It may be hard to remember, but the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is supposed to ensure the right of workers to organize and safeguard the stated public policy expounded in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which favors collective bargaining. Under the Trump …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11122019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Local 100, United Labor Unions, has represented hoppers for more than twenty-five years. The hopper is a mechanical term of art on a garbage truck. It’s the round cylinder at back of the truck where the garbage is collected and crushed before heading to …
https://acornradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ww06292018.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans To have a number of Democratic candidates for President full-throatily espousing policies that seem to favor labor is so rare that it earned a headline in the New York Times saying, “Democrats Grow Bolder With Pro-Labor Policies.” Hey, that’s got to be good news …